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The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb.
“These vintage, utilitarian, metal-clad, ill-shape boxes on wheels somehow bring out the adventurous, fun, freedom-loving spirit that was collectively yearned for in the 1960s [and] still rings ...
Filipino pop songs mainly referred to songs popularized since the 1960s, usually sentimental ballads and movie themes.Major 1960s Filipino pop acts include Pilita Corrales and Nora Aunor. 1960s-styled ballads maintained their popularity into the 1970s, led by female balladeers dubbed "jukebox queens" such as Claire dela Fuente, Imelda Papin and Eva Eugenio, and male artists such as Anthony ...
A 2010 European survey conducted by the digital broadcaster Music Choice, interviewing over 11,000 participants, rated the decade rather low, with only 19% declaring it the best tune decade in the last 50 years, [80] while participants of an American land line survey rated the 1960s a bit higher, with 26% declaring it as best decade in music.
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a patron's selection from self-contained media.The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them, which are used to select specific records.
The origin of GMA Network can be traced back to Loreto F. de Hemedes Inc. through DZBB, [2] which started airing its radio broadcast on March 1, 1950, and officially launched as a local radio station in Manila on June 14, 1950, and owned by Robert La Rue "Uncle Bob" Stewart, an American war correspondent. [3]
3 January – Liz Kershaw, UK radio presenter 13 February – Delilah, nationally syndicated US love-song request-and-dedication host 10 March – Anne MacKenzie, Scottish broadcast journalist
The AM broadcast band in the Philippines is on 531–1701 kHz with 9 kHz spacing (530–1700 kHz with 10 kHz spacing from the American colonial era and post-independence up to 1978), and is predominantly used for news and public service broadcasting. The FM band is the most commonly used broadcast band, with most music radio stations in the ...